by TurkeyPurge | Apr 20, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
The ruling AK Party submitted to Turkey’s top election body (YSK) a list of voters dismissed from their jobs as part of the government’s post-coup crackdown and asked for the cancellation of the poll in Istanbul where the candidate of the opposition party...
by TurkeyPurge | Mar 30, 2019 | Today in Crackdown
Pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) said at least 64 members were detained in less than 24 hours before the election. 31 of them were remanded in prison pending trial, a statement by an HDP parliamentarian noted.. The number of people detained since the...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 30, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
A Turkish court has ruled against releasing from jail a newly-elected parliamentarian of the pro-Kurdish Democratic Peoples’ Party (HDP), under pre-trial detention for nearly 6 months now. Leyla Güven, a HDP deputy who was elected as a parliamentarian on the June 24,...
by TurkeyPurge | Jun 24, 2018 | Today in Crackdown
At least 87 people were detained at polling stations where they stopped to cast their votes in the elections on Sunday. Turkey held presidential and parliamentary polls on June 24, 2018. With the official voting results were yet to be disclosed by the Supreme Election...
by TurkeyPurge | May 24, 2018 | Hate Speech, Human Rights Abuses
Ahmet Maranki, a professor of complementary medicine, has said during a live TV interview that a civil war would break out in Turkey if the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) does not win upcoming elections slated for June 24. Speaking on a live program on...
Emotional reunion of 9-year-old daughter, disabled father after 20 months in Turkish prison
Dementia-suffering Kurdish politician released from prison
The head of Turkey’s doctors’ union sent to prison on terror accusations
Turkish police detain 543 people in 59 provinces over alleged Gülen links
Son of purge-victim judge jumps to his death from İstanbul’s Galata Tower
Constitutional court rejects jailed Kurdish youngster’s appeal for release
This Kurdish youngster in 6th year in Silivri prison on coup charges
14 more military cadets set free after 6 years in prison
Turkish gov’t seeks extradition of critical journalist Cevheri Güven
Purge-victim police officer dies after accident at a mining site in Gebze